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Originally Posted by fading
Hello all,
I work for a small publisher and we're just getting into the creation of Kindle eBooks from our existing print titles.
I've had decent results creating PRC files from PDFs using MobiPocket. However, there's always a few hours formatting work (adding and removing line breaks, random incidents where spaces are missing after commas etc. etc.) - we're looking at getting a conversion house to convert our archive of existing titles, but it's obviously not cheap.
So...what I am wondering is whether there's a better original format than PDF to work from which will require less manual editing?
We produce all of our books in Quark and then print them to PDF. Is there another format we can save to from Quark which will be better than PDF to work with in order to create our PRC files?
Thanks all :-)
Sam
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Couple of bits of advice...
1. Don't ever use PDF as a source format. It doesn't convert without errors and the only way to fix them is to a/b the PDF with the output.
2. Don't go Kindle only. That will lose you a lot of sales and respect. Go ePub & LRF as well and you'll catch all the users using readers other than Kindles.
3. I don't know if Indesign will read Quark files directly, but InDesign can output ePub. And if you have ePub, you can use Calibre to go to LRF and Mobipocket from there. All of this will work if you plan on going without DRM.